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Dormition Abbey

Dormition Abbey

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Dormition Abbey

Recommended by 35 hikers out of 36

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2. Damascus Gate – Zion Gate loop from Bab a-Zahara

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3. Jaffa Gate – Zion Gate loop from Armenian Quarter

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JakobusPilger

May 4, 2022

“The white church of the Benedictine Dormition Mariae Abbey rises high on Mount Zion. In 1898 Kaiser Wilhelm II suggested this imposing building; It was completed in 1906 and entrusted to the Benedictines of the Archabbey of Beuron. The Dormition Church preserves the memory of the Blessed Mother, who is said to have died here. (...) A small atmospheric chapel, from which a window offers a view of the Gothic communion hall, offers the opportunity to celebrate the Eucharist in the place dedicated to the memory of the institution of the sacrament."
(Brother Peter Fobes OFM in "Pilgrims of the Centuries", B.Kuhlen Verlag)

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Bernd

October 13, 2022

One of the numerous sacred buildings in the old city of Jerusalem, initiated and built by Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Lisa im Ländle

January 24, 2022

The Dormition Abbey is a German-speaking Benedictine abbey on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The name derives from the patron saint of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Abbey Church is the Dormition Basilica.

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Dormition Abbey

1. Jaffa Gate – Zion Gate loop from ירושלים - יצחק נבון

2. Damascus Gate – Zion Gate loop from Bab a-Zahara

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